Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) has agreed to take on the cost of frequent grass cutting on highway verges in the town after South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) announced plans to reduce the number of cuts to just two a year. The move is a consequence of SGC’s review of ‘highway and street scene’ services, through which it hopes to save
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Conservative candidate Benjamin Randles has been declared the winner of yesterday’s by-election in the Lakeside parish ward of Bradley Stoke. Mr Randles, with 253 votes, finished well ahead of Derrick Powell (UKIP), with 97 votes, and Sarah Drake (Liberal Democrat), with 72. The Labour Party did not put up a candidate. With 1,972 people entitled to vote, the turnout was
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Officers at Bradley Stoke Town Council have been asked to produce a detailed report on possible future uses for the hard court area at the Brook Way Activity Centre after Mayor Brian Hopkinson failed to gain support for a proposal to allow a local charity to build on the land. An innocuous-sounding item on the agenda for last month’s Full
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The by-election for a vacant seat on Bradley Stoke Town Council will be a three-way fight between candidates from the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and UKIP parties. The vacancy arose due to the resignation of former Mayor Charlotte Walker (Independent), who revealed in her letter of resignation that she has been “studying away from the town for some time” and now
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Bradley Stoke Town Councillors look set to wave through more than a dozen ‘strategic’ recommendations at a Full Council meeting on Wednesday night (18th September). The recommendations, agreed at a ‘strategic planning meeting’ held in private on 9th September and attended by nine of the fifteen elected councillors, range from spending £11k p.a. on highway verge grass cutting services currently
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A Bradley Stoke Town Councillor and former Mayor has resigned her seat just two months after announcing that she had dumped the Conservatives to become independent. Cllr Charlotte Walker was elected under the Conservative banner to represent the Lakeside parish ward in May 2011 and served as Mayor during the administrative year 2012/13. In doing so, she followed in the footsteps
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Conservative candidate Andy Ward has been declared the winner of yesterday’s by-election in the Primrose Bridge parish ward of Bradley Stoke. Mr Ward, with 387 votes, finished ahead of Caroline Sullivan (UKIP), with 269 votes, and Sarah Drake (Liberal Democrat), with 160. The Labour Party, which fielded a full set of candidates for the four-seat ward in 2011, did not
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Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) has published its Annual Report for 2012/13, ahead of the Annual Town Meeting, which takes place on Wednesday 8th May. The meeting will receive summary reports from the Chair of Council (Cllr Charlotte Walker), the Chair of the Finance Committee (Cllr Roger Avenin), the Chair of the Planning & Environment Committee (Cllr Robert Jones) and
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The by-election for a vacant seat on Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) will be a three-way fight between candidates from the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and UKIP parties. The contest, which was forced by UKIP following the resignation of Conservative councillor Keir Gravil, will be determined on Thursday 2nd May when around 3,500 voters in the Primrose Bridge parish ward are
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The local branch of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has called for a by-election to fill a vacant seat on Bradley Stoke Town Council. The vacancy, in the Primrose Bridge parish ward, arose in February when Keir Gravil (Conservative) resigned because he is going to work abroad. Local UKIP councillor Ben Walker, buoyed by the good showing of his party’s
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